blow – English noun declension

English noun forms of blow

Noun: blow
Singularblow
Pluralblows

Sample Sentences

  • We’re having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
  • Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay. [1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:]
  • The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
  • Hi there, you're a pretty cute chick, want to snort some blow? [1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky:]
  • Hey man, you wanna cop some blow? / Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks? [1983, “White Lines (Don't Do It)”, performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel:]
  • Jesus Christ, George, I don't see you for two years and you show up on my doorstep with 110 pounds of blow. [2001, David McKenna, Blow, spoken by Derek:]
  • I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away [2023, “Modern Day Ripoff”, in Every Loser, performed by Iggy Pop:]
  • His girlfriend gave him a blow.
  • The sounding of the alarm was the signal to begin the emergency blow maneuver. At this time, witnesses reported, the guest at the high-pressure air controls operated the levers under close supervision of Navy personnel, and the submarine started to rise at a sharp angle. [2005 September 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “Emergency Evolutions”, in Marine Accident Brief: Collision between the U.S. Navy Submarine USS Greeneville and Japanese Motor Vessel Ehime Maru near Oahu, Hawaii, 9 February 2001, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2022, page 24:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
5. Proto-Germanic *blēaną
6. Proto-West Germanic *blāan
7. Old English blāwan
8. Middle English blowen
9. English blow
10. From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)). See: Old English Nouns 'blāwan', Latin Nouns 'flō'.

Verbs referencing "blow"

Latin Nouns flemen.